“The best way to communicate (with my grandfather) was through silence,” artist Joan Punyet Miró told TheDiarist.ph when asked about his famous grandfather, Joan Miró, the artist who was a major force of 20th century art.
Joan Punyet Miró was in Manila a week ago to open his second exhibit here, titled Oneness (Unidad), presented by León Gallery International.
Asked about his grandfather’s influence on his art, Joan Punyet Miró said, “It’s the concept of freedom, spirituality and uniqueness.”
If there was one thing he had learned, it would be “to be creative, not repetitive….to be thoroughly unexpected.”
Joan Punyet Miró is an artist, art historian, curator, author, and steward of the Miró legacy. As the grandson of Joan Miró, he has spent much of his life preserving, interpreting, and extending public understanding of one of the most influential artistic legacies of the 20th century. At the same time, his own artistic practice has developed into a personal language of memory, color, gesture, spirituality, and abstraction.
In conceptualizing Oneness, Miró has the young people in mind—”The young people losing hope” because of the strife and division in the world. The exhibit is his fight against hopelessness.
As an artist, Joan Punyet Miró has evolved through sculpture, poetry, music, performance, and painting. Recent writings on his work describe a deeply physical process, with the artist using his hands and body, rather than conventional brushes or tools, allowing movement, intuition, memory, and inner emotion to guide the surface.
His 2025 exhibition Monocromías in Paris explored memory, gesture, silence, and the atmosphere of his grandfather’s studio through a monochrome visual language.
Oneness (unidad) continues this personal vocabulary, expanding it into an immersive meditation on unity. Through the language of installation, the exhibition brings together the spiritual and the earthly, the poetic and the ecological, the intimate and the universal. It asks viewers to reflect on how love and nature mirror each other, how spirituality can be felt in the body, and how the environment is inseparable from the inner life.
Presented again by León Gallery International, this second Philippine exhibition marks a continuing cultural dialogue between Spain and the Philippines, deepening the connection forged by Joan Punyet Miró’s 2025 Manila debut.
León Gallery International is one of the Philippines’ leading art institutions, known for presenting important works, exhibitions, and cultural programs that connect Philippine audiences with significant local and international artists.
Exhibition Details
Joan Punyet Miró: Oneness
Opening Night: May 28, 2026 | 6:00 PM
Venue: León Gallery International
G/F Corinthian Plaza, Paseo de Roxas, Makati
Presented by León Gallery International
In partnership with the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines, AECID Cultura, and Instituto Cervantes de Manila
